Ranking the Albums of Pantera with Pete Pardo and Martin Popoff! 

For me: 1. Vulgar Display of Power 2. Far Beyond Driven 3. Cowboy From Hell 4. Reinventing The Steel 5. The Great American Trendkill 6. Power Metal 7. Metal Magic 8. I am The Night 9. Projects in the Jungle

1. Great Southern Trendkill 2.Far Beyond Driven 3.Cowboys from Hell 4.Vulgar Display 5.re-inventing the steel

Fantastic video. For me it would be Vulgar Display because overall I think the songs are better and more consistent but like Pete said, those 3 tracks on Far Beyond Driven are KILLER too.

Please do a Pantera book Martin!!!

The band "Europe" has released a brand new song called "Hold Your Head Up". For those interested!

the cd “power metal” is way underrated

1 - Cowboys From Hell 2 - The Great Southern Trendkill 3 - Vulgar Display Of Power 4 - Far Beyond Driven 5 - Reinventing The Steel 6 - Power Metal 7 - I Am The Night 8 - Projects In The Jungle 9 - Metal Magic

An amazing band! One of my favorites for sure. Super influential on current metal music. 1) Far Beyond Driven 2) The Great Southern Treandkill 3) Vulgar Display Of Power 4) Cowboys From Hell 5) Reinventing The Steel 6) Power Metal 7) Projects In The Jungle 8) I Am The Night 9) Metal Magic

9. Metal Magic 8. Projects in the Jungle 7. I Am the Night 6. Power Metal 5. CFH 4. RTS 3. VDOP 2. GSTK 1. FBD

I love the first 3 albums after that I checked out.

28:49 re: metal threshold. I think this is really well stated and, actually, I think my metal threshold is about the same place as Guitar Hack's, with Pantera teetering along the edge.

9.Metal Magic 8. I Am The Night 7. Projects in the Jungle 6. Power Metal 5. The Great Southern Trendkill 4. Reinventing the Steel 3. Cowboys from Hell 2. Vulgar Display of Power 1. Far Beyond Driven

Pantera absolutely need to reissue their first 4 albums

Top 5 1 - Vulgar Display of Power 2. - Cowboys From Hell 3 -.Far Beyond Driven 4. -The Great American Trendkill 5.- Reinventing The Steel

Great Show as always, A King Diamond Show would also be cool.

I am with you, Hack. Pantera is my metal threshhold as well. I can't do the growling, except for maybe some brief ventures.

9. Metal Magic 8. Great Southern Trendkill 7. Power Metal 6. Reinventing the Steel 5. Projects In the Jungle 4. Far Beyond Driven 3. I Am the Night 2. Cowboys from Hell 1. Vulgar Display of Power

Interesting about the threshold, id agree on Anselmo but strangely i can listen to slayer.

1. Cowboys From Hell 2. Vulgar Display of Power 3. The Great Southern Trendkill 4. Far Beyond Driven 5. Reinventing The Steel 6. Power Metal 7. I Am The Night 8. Projects In The Jungle 9. Metal Magic

1. Vulgar Display of Power 2. Cowboys From Hell 3. Far Beyond Driven 4. Best of. Don't need or really want anything beyond that.

I just saw Pantera a few weeks ago & I was pleasantly surprised that Zakk played like Dimebag and not like Zakk & Phil's vocals were spot on. I saw the Pantera of the 90s & this was almost as great as that Pantera.

i wish the band (the family) would reissue the first four records

Worth mentioning that Far Beyond Driven is the heaviest Billboard number one album ever.

‘Projects in the Jungle’ is my first and has become my go to Pantera album over the years. Dime’s solo at the end of “Takin My Life” is simply brilliant! That being said, I don’t think it’s their best. My ranking 1. Cowboys From Hell 2. Vulgar Display of Power 3. Projects in the Jungle 4. Power Metal 5. Far Beyond Driven 6. I Am The Night 7. Reinventing the Steel 8. Great Southern Trendkill 9. Metal Magic Metal Magic is very primative but still fun. Reinventing & Trendkill start to throw in a lot of filler. Some of it is “contrived heaviness” or just making racket to sound heavy. Phil’s once great range and powerful vocals are shot by then. Still great guitar solos by Dime.

Vulgar is definitely their best record overall but Cowboys is my favorite. Does that make sense?

The fact that Vinnie and Dime basically erased their 80's catalogue is wrong. I never thought of those first four records as "hair metal" in sound and definitely nothing to be ashamed of.

Where can we buy those early Pantera albums on CD? Are they obtainable? Thanks!

My ranking 1-9: Vulgar Display of Power Cowboys From Hell Far Beyond Driven Projects in the Jungle Power Metal Great Southern Trendkill Reinventing the Steel I am the Night Metal Magic

metal edge covered them alot in 80s

I'm i dreaming ? Pantera ? Oh yea !!!

Trendkill and Steel are both consistently underrated and FBD is consistently overrated.

The early ones are my favorite! I Am The Night fucking RULES

I understand panteras importance and popularity in the 90s but I could never get into them, don't like Anselmo gruff voice. I like cemetery gates and the title track from cowboys but not much else especially the heavier albums.

Inovative, Pantera, new genra. If Richie Blackmore didn't invent this mode of playing there would not be : Eddie Van Halen Randy Roads All the metal guitarists after If not for Richie Blackmore, there would not be a Pantera.

For me it's not a "metal threshold", just what certain bands are good at -- I like a lot of extreme metal bands because of the way they play and the way they do things. I don't love Pantera although I think they are interesting; I definitely prefer them being kind of melodic and Cowboys would be my favourite. I think Reinventing the Steel is probably their worst for me -- I'd take the 80s ones over it for sure. Of course, I don't think too many people knew about them back in the 80s at all. In my opinion a lot of people are just too easy on this band for reasons I can only theorise about. All the albums until Cowboys have pretty thin and weak sound for their time (yes, I mean compared to other "poverty" metal bands Martin mentioned), and Glaze was definitely not great. I don't think the band changed overnight; in fact it was pretty gradual, with Vulgar certainly being a little bit of a leap, but not that much of one. I like Trendkill a lot because it's such a weird and intense album, and theres variety on it and more of a feeling of dedication and passion that I don't hear at all on Reinventing. So Trendkill would be #2. For me, Power Metal is #3. I really enjoy that one for the most part and yes, Phil was an improvement. Already on stuff like Far beyond Driven I was missing his cool versatile melodic voice. Weird band, like I said; far from a favourite but kind of interesting to talk about in a way. it always surprises me when guys who were around during the 80s metal days embrace what they turned into. I'm not one of those people -- Trendkill was the "new" album that came out a little while after I discovered them.

Did Martin just slam Chicago? Pete is a fan of early Chicago, the Chicago that produced three amazing, jazz influenced albums right out of the gate! Martin must be referring to sappy, ballad heavy Chicago! Right Martin? Martin?

1. I Am the Night 2. Projects in the Jungle 3. Metal Magic 4. Cowboys From Hell 5. Their Nu Metal nonsense ,or Groove Metal 😂. Just too bouncy for my tastes. I like the faster songs , but songs like Walk can just Walk On.....HOMEBOY.....HOMEBOY......WALK On. You Go HOMEBOY

1. Vulgar 2. Far beyond 3. Cowboys

I think they are the Dullest, most generic, overrated band in the history of metal. I liked a few of the offshoot bands like damageplan and superjoint

Also I'm sorry but this band has the worst attitude ever. Sweeping their first four albums under the rug is so egregious at this point, especially after the death of the Abbot brothers.

Hard to discuss Pantera without thinking of the annoying stage behavior of Phil over the recent years and how poorly he handled the critique.

29:45 Awesome. Pete likes Chicago.

1. I Am the Night 2. Projects in the Jungle 3. Cowboys from Hell 4. The Great Southern Trendkill 5. Vulgar Display of Power 6. Power Metal 7. Far Beyond Driven 8. Reinventing the Steel 9. Metal Magic Great catalogue. One of my favorite bands.

Tora tora and one foot out the door rock ballz

Dimes playing in later years was just like how zakk wyldes solos have been for 20 years. Way to much effects and overdubs and just noisy.

Cemetery gates is lame

I liked some of their stuff back in the day, . But, far beyond driven is a horrible record with bad vocals and way to much needless overdubs that make most of the songs annoying and unlistenable. I was done with them after that other than a couple songs. Dime and Vinnie were good though

Far beyond is garbage

9. I Am The Night 8. Metal Magic 7. Projects in the Jungle 6. Power Metal 5. Reinventing the Steel 4. The Great Southern Trendkill 3. Cowboys from Hell 2. Far Beyond Driven 1. Vulgar Display of Power